Robert Nelson
Director
Biography
Born in 1930 to a family of Swedish immigrants, Robert Nelson studied painting until changing his focus to concentrate on filmmaking in the early 1960s. Strong influences included the Bay Area bohemian Beat scene and the improvisatory theatre of the San Francisco Mime Troupe, with which he would ultimately collaborate on several films. His marriage to experimental filmmaker Gunvor Nelson also helped jumpstart his early filmmaking impulse and instigated many films.
As Director
Bleu Shut
1970
The Great Blondino
1967
The Off-Handed Jape... & How to Pull It Off
1967
The Awful Backlash
1967
Hauling Toto Big
1998
Confessions of a Black Mother Succuba
1965
Hot Leatherette
1967
Suite California Stops & Passes Part 1: Tijuana to Hollywood via Death Valley
1976
Grateful Dead
1967
Penny Bright & Jimmy Witherspoon
1967
